Degenerative Brain Disease
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Health & Medicine
MS and new ways of regenerating our brain’s insulation
New research finds that stimulating myelin production in our brains could help people living with degenerative and disabling neurological diseases like Multiple Sclerosis
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Health & Medicine
How much exercise keeps our brains healthy as we age?
New guidelines outline how much physical exercise older Australians concerned about their memory should be aiming for each week, to help maintain brain health
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Health & Medicine
‘Rusty’ brains linked to Alzheimer’s
The discovery that high iron levels in the brain can lead to the onset of the devastating disease may pave the way for a treatment
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Health & Medicine
Taking the guesswork out of concussion
A simple blood test or scan could soon give a definitive all-clear for players struck in the head to return to the field
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Sciences & Technology
Podcast
Untangling our evolutionary history
Professor Bernard Wood on why greater evidence can make it even harder to trace our origins